Northern
Territory Police meet regularly with Tangentyere Council to discuss issues
relating to family violence in town camps.

Tangentyere
Council’s Women’s Safety Group was created in 2014 in response to a group of women’s
concern about family and domestic violence. The women actively campaigned to
have a program that focussed on family violence in the town camps.

The
group recently met with the Assistant Commissioner Jeanette Kerr and
Superintendent Helen Braam to discuss these issues.

The
Women’s Safety Group has developed a range of resources for women regarding
violence and is pivotal to changing the culture of violence in community. Their
key message is that family violence is not part of a healthy relationship and
this type of violence should not be normalised.

“In
late 2014, a woman was killed in a town camp due to family violence,” said
Maree Corbo, Program Manager with the Tangentyere Council Family Violence
Prevention Programs.